Astral Foods Ltd (ALFDF) Q4 2025 Earnings Call

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Good morning to you all. Welcome to all our investors, colleagues, and then our chairman, Teance. And we have Vili and Bridget from our board here today. And then as I walked in, Anthony Clark said to me, he thinks he must be in the wrong place because he saw the old bugger here. So welcome, Chris. Hello to you. Chris has joined us today. Anthony called you the old bugger, not me. But let's dive into the presentation. We'll try and stick to the time. As you know, We are always quite diligent on that and we'll get into the business overview. Fortunately, all green arrows, and Chris used to have a comment for this, which I'll steer away from, but absolutely a good scoreboard. Revenue up 10%. One always likes to see that growth in revenue. That ultimately is what drives the bottom line growth, especially in an inflationary cost environment. And we'll dig a little deeper into where we generated that additional revenue from a little later. Profits up 11% to just under 1.3 billion Rand. And then headline earnings up 14% to 21.93. We closed the year with a very healthy cash balance, just over a billion Rand. And on that, we're able to declare a final dividend of 8 rand ATS share, taking the total dividend for the year to 11 rand. So good cash generated from operations at 1.7 billion rand, up 20%. And we will spend a lot more time on those numbers later in the presentation. It's very pertinent to point out that this was a tale of two halves, as we've phrased it. And I thought we should give just a bit of perspective on what changed or happened between the first and the second half. And at our interim results in May, you will recognize some of these outlook prospects that we put up on the slides at that time. And it did point to some of the key drivers in the business coming ...